I prefer them to coal fired plants - especially the newer safer designs. But the cost is yet to be seen. These things never come in on budget or time. And a nuclear plant is like a car lease, the salesman tries to gloss over the balloon payment you will still owe after you've already gotten your use out of the thing. Somebody has to pay for indefinite waste storage and clean-up. If it's not the rate-payers now, it will be the tax payers later.

What does "government run amuck" (sic) have to do with any of this? Completely off topic.

Obviously no system is perfect. However, most people prefer having laws, courts and trials, over anarchy and summary execution on the street as heartbroken seems to suggest.

Thanks a lot, free market and a finite supply of oil coupled with increasing worldwide demand! Who elected you!?

I believe they lead the way because they were forced to close several coal plants by court order because their pollution was causing health problems in surrounding communities, and because they failed to meet emissions requirements for many years in a row. But, hey, nice try with the positive spin, guys.

Well, suicide or murder I would think.

Well, if you know much about biology you know that jimcarwest's post is a gross oversimplification. I suspect some of those quotes are cherry-picked or taken out of context. We certainly don't understand the human genome completely. We also have just a tiny inkling of how hormones and other chemicals interact in our bodies to affect our growth and behavior.

Lacking scientific evidence otherwise why don't we take people at their word? Most gay people say they were born gay, and most straight people say they were born straight. Maybe some of the people who don't believe a person is born gay or straight, were born bisexual or asexual.

In any case, what does it matter? It doesn't hurt me at all if other people have a different sexuality than me. Though I must say I find it annoying how a different letter gets added every year to "GLBTQ" What's "Q", for crying out loud!

"But what could justify forcing an academically high-performing home-schooler to accept enrollment at one of Tennessee's all-too-abundant failing schools as the price of trying out for basketball? You don't have to order the entire menu -- much less sip strychnine -- at a restaurant before the waitress will serve you a pancake."

Huh? You don't have to sip strychnine to get a pancake? I'm not saying Barrett is schizophrenic, but you shouldn't have to lick a psychadelic frog so you can understand an editorial.

I actually don't need spell or grammar-check. I'm an educated native English speaker. Just sayin'.

. . . Well, after that fun little bit of pomposity I hope I don't misspell anything below.

So, what many people don't realize or acknowledge, is that times of economic downturn don't hurt the wealthy. This is when you can get stuff at bargain prices. So it really isn't necessarily in the best interests of the moneyed interests in Washington to pull together and get the economy humming again.

An economic downturn doesn't hurt them but raising the capital gains tax would, so there is no downside (except moral) to holding the economy hostage in return for continued low taxes. That, my friends, is the motive. We already know the method and the victim.

Well I'm glad they finally caught SeaMonkey.